Guests

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Peta Greenfield holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Classics and Ancient History and specialises in the Vestal Virgins and the Age of Augustus. Fiona Radford holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Ancient History and specialises in classical reception and the film Spartacus (1960). Together they host the popul...

Christina Hotalen is a Social Media Manager for Invicta History (YouTube), and holds a B.A. in Classics and Ph.D. in History from the University of South Florida concentrating on the late Roman Empire. Her research interests include gender and sexuality, identity, material culture, digital humanitie...

Hamish Cameron is a Lecturer in Classics at Victoria University of Wellington where he works on the history and geography of the Roman Near East, representations of imperialism in ancient Greek and Latin literature, and the reception of the ancient Mediterranean world in modern games. His book, Maki...

Dr. Victoria Austen’s research focuses primarily on the intersection of literature and material culture in the analysis of Roman gardens and landscapes. More broadly, she is interested in Latin literature, especially from the Late Republic and Early Empire; Roman history and material culture; race a...

Amy Pistone is an Assistant Professor at Gonzaga University where she is the sole Hellenist, so she gets to teach and work on a wide range of topics. She did her PhD at the University of Michigan, where her dissertation focused on oracular language in the plays of Sophocles, but she has recently wor...

Debra Trusty is currently a lecturer for the Department of Classics at the University of Iowa. She received her BA in archaeology from the University of Evansville and MA and PhD in Classics from Florida State University. Her dissertation investigated the political economies of Mycenaean Greece thro...

Caitie Barrett is an archaeologist who studies everyday life and cross-cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean. A 2022 National Geographic Explorer, she teaches at Cornell University as Associate Professor of Classics. She also co-directs an archaeological excavation at Pompeii: the Casa ...

Julie Levy (she/they) is an independent scholar who left her PhD program with all but the dissertation finished in protest over graduate student working conditions. They are currently the Program Coordinator for the Save Ancient Studies Alliance, and their recent work can be found on the Paizomen bl...

Colin Shelton is Language Program Coordinator for Latin and Ancient Greek. His scholarly work applies insights from Second Language Acquisition to the teaching and learning of ancient languages. He has also published about ancient Roman etymologizing, and the semantics of Latin wordplay. Current pro...

Jordan Galczynski is an Egyptology PhD Candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has excavated in a number of locations including Egypt and Israel, and has worked with museum collections in Egypt, the United States, and Europe. Jordan’s research focuses on textile and costume studi...

Felipe Rojas is associate professor of archaeology at Brown University. His book The Pasts of Roman Anatolia: Interpreters, Traces, Horizons (2019) examines Roman-period manipulations of Bronze- and Iron-Age material remains in what is now Turkey. Among his publications are the co-edited volumes Aft...